Tag: gospel of luke
“Why do we pull for Jesus in the gospels?” One Unexpected Reason
by GARY YAMASAKI In a story, there will often be a single character who attracts the spotlight. This, of course, is the case in Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, with Jesus occupying that role, though the degree to which the spotlight stays on Jesus in these stories is noteworthy. Take the Gospel of Mark as… Read More ›
What Luke 24:51 is NOT trying to depict
by GARY YAMASAKI Is it really true that biblical storytellers are able to manipulate point-of-view devices in a text to control even the angle from which their readers view a given scene in their mind’s eye? This is a claim made near the end of the post entitled “Perspective Criticism: Everything you never realized you… Read More ›
PERSPECTIVE CRITICISM 